Redhat underpins many low-visibility, very important Linux projects, and most have no idea they are doing it. For example, look at kernel committers:
https://insights.linuxfoundation.org/project/korg/contributo...
weighted by market cap, the disparity is even more severe imo.
There is more visible projects (eg Ansible) that are great, but with very lackluster monetization and little impetus for IBM to GAF.
These guys are pursuing the wrong strategy, they should be using super popular, high-mindshare projects to drive new wave of tailored business solutions leveraging existing consulting teams they already have (IBM revenue to hugely reliant on PS, 33%). Basically the largest "forward deployed eng" transition ever, backed by existing very strong open-source software and tailored (with Watson, dear god) as the "AI powered" engine to appease the shareholder gods. You would run over so many startups with poor penetration at the F2000 level.
Could you expand a bit more on what you’re describing here? Interested to hear more.
Dramatizing the inevitable does what?
toomuchtodo•52m ago
hollerith•50m ago
Fedora at least tries relatively consistently—and has been for decades.
chronogram•36m ago
hollerith•31m ago
Desktop Linux is very bad at that compared to ChromeOS and MacOS, but some distros are much better than others. For a few decades now, Fedora has been one of the better ones.
j1elo•28m ago
All those would be important, but don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. We could start from the Vulnerability Of The Year: supply chain attacks.
amelius•49m ago
evanjrowley•45m ago
toomuchtodo•42m ago
notnullorvoid•27m ago
From what I can tell NixOS still has no support for AppArmor or SELinux.
tosti•25m ago